2. Click “Create New Group”

You’ll be taken to a page that displays the option to create a group as well as showing you some suggested groups to join.

To begin the process of creating a group click “Create New Group”.

>> Facebook also offers an alternate way to create a new group

Right of the “Create New Group” button you’ll notice options to choose “Group Ideas”:

By clicking on one of these selections (Family, Classmates, Sports Teams or Book Club), you’re immediately taken to the create screen — just like if you clicked “Create New Group”.

3. Name Your Group

You will now see this lightbox:

The first thing you need to do is give your group a name — I’m naming my group “Scott Secret Group”.

This name can be whatever you want & you can change it later. But try to make the group name memorable & searchable — so people can find it.

4. Add Members

Facebook does something odd here — and out of order, in my opinion.

You’re actually required to add at least 1 friend to the group before you can create it. If you don’t you get the error message below:

So in order to create your group, you’ll need to add at least 1 friend to the group.

5. Choose Privacy Setting

You’ll now need to decide what privacy setting you want your group to have.

This is probably the most important choice you’ll make while creating your group — as their are some limits to changing down the road. If you have fewer than 250 members you’ll be able to change the settings as you see fit.

But as soon as your groups grows to over 250 members, you can only change an Open group to Closed or Secret — and a Closed group to Secret.

You won’t be able to change the privacy again after this.

There can be confusion about what privacy setting a group should have — Open, Closed or Secret.

It’s fairly self explanatory as seen above — but here’s another great graphic from Facebook to break it down:

6. Click Create

After you choose your privacy setting, click the “Create” button as you’ve seen in previous images:

7. Choose an Icon

Facebook will now give you the option to choose from a wide array of creative graphics for your icon/avatar.

This is completely up to you and bears no significance as far as Facebook is concerned.

But if you’ve created many groups or have multiple groups in your favorites, you’ll want to choose an icon you can easily identify.

Your group is now officially created!

There are, however, a few more items you can customize.

8. Complete “About” Section

Your about section is important for 2 reasons:

Gives prospective members an idea what your group is about

Can display any “rules” you may have about the group

So fill it out as you see fit — seeing as this is YOUR group.

9. Choose Group Image Setting

You’re given the 3 options here:

use images from group members (will show a maximum of the last 8 active members)

Co-author of Facebook All-In-One for Dummies and "Ambassador of Awesome" at Post Planner, Scott became addicted to social media before even MySpace (the first time around!). Any given day he spends 20+ hours on Facebook! He's been married for 20 years and has 3 kiddos who are his world! Connect with him on Facebook and Twitter.